Company Said Gas Output Grew 5% From 2012 to 437,000 Barrels a Day

By

Laurence Iliff

Feb. 5, 2014 6:33 p.m. ET

MEXICO CITY—State-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, is seeing the benefits of refinery upgrades through a notable increase in gasoline production and a drop in imports that had shot up in recent years to around half of the nation's consumption.

Pemex said in a release Wednesday that gasoline output at its six refineries grew 5% last year from 2012 to 437,000 barrels a day on average.